EasyCAP drivers for Windows 8, 8.1 and 10

http://visser.io/2015/06/easycap-drivers-for-windows-8-1/

The EasyCAP converts an RCA or S-video source into a USB video and audio capture device – known as a Sound, video and game controller device in Windows – the possibilities for connecting analog sources to a Windows machine are endless and it’s priced insanely cheap.

This package contains the files needed for installing the EasyCap USB Video Capture Adapter Driver. If it has been installed, updating (overwrite-installing) may fix problems, add new functions, or expand existing ones.

All of this positive feedback stops when you connect it to a Windows machine – XP, 7, 8, 8.1 and now 10 – and realise there are hundreds of variations of this device produced with drivers designed specific to each variant with no original manufacturer to provide drivers or compatibility… at this point most users bin it and go on with their lives… I almost gave up too…

After a fortnight of driver hunting, driver conflicts, BSOD’s from resource conflicts and even ‘Windows driver paywalls’ – where you have to pay to download drivers for the EasyCAP – I got ‘my’ EasyCAP working as a video and sound capture device in Windows 8.1 (and Windows 10)!

Here’s the gotcha, ‘my’ EasyCAP – shown in packaging above but with labels on each cable – is sold on eBay, Amazon, etc. as theEasyCAP Capture USB 2.0 Video Adapter with Audio which isshared by every other variant out there but internally it is called the eMPIA Technology USB 2861 Device.

Unfortunately there is no way to tell what variant you have until you open the package and check the Device Properties for that Unknown Device showing within the Windows Device Manager and at that point you then can start looking for drivers that may be ‘compatible’ with – definitely not designed for – Windows 8, 8.1 or 10.

The eMPIA Technology USB 2861 Device has the following hardware details shown within the Windows Device Manager.

Easycap Usb 20 Video Capture Controller Driver Windows 7 32bit Download

Screenshot from Windows 8.1 and Windows 10

EasyCAP drivers working in Windows 10 connected using the RCA output of the EasyCAP device.

Manufacturer and Provider:

• eMPIA Technology

Hardware IDs:

• USB/VID_EB1A&PID_2861&REV_0100&MI=00
• USB/VID_EB1A&PID_2861&MI=00

Below is a link to the Windows 7 drivers that were compatible with my EasyCAP device and further down a list of other EasyCAP drivers you can try. All of them require you to disable Windows Driver Signature from Advanced Startup; you can read about this from Sparkfun’s tutorial for Disabling Signed Driver Enforcement in Windows 8.

The driver package that worked in Windows 8.1 and now Windows 10:

• ThumbDTV_driver_5.7.129.0.zip (aka EMBDA64 5.7.129.0 – 1/29/2007)

I suspect this USB 2861 Device 5.8.306.0 – 3/6/2008 driver packagehosted on the Microsoft Update Catalog is a newer driver release than the one I have working but I have not installed it so cannot confirm compatibility; in my mind, don’t fix something that ain’t broke…

Other driver packages and installers that might help other frustrated EasyCAP users (some are duplicates but different driver versions), good luck!

• Drivers_SMI_Grabber_26012011.zip (aka SMIUSBGrabber3C)
• EasyCAP (DC60).zip (aka STK1160)
• Easycap by VkJose.zip (aka SMIUSBGrabber3C)
• Easycap Driver for Win7 64bit.zip (aka STK1160)
• Easycap Drivers.zip (aka STK1160)
• EasyCapDC60_64bit.zip (aka EasyCAPDC60)
• EasycapDC60_STK1160Grabber_32&64bit (aka STK1160)
• SmiUsbGrabber3C.zip (aka SMIUSBGrabber3C)
• UTV007_Drivers.zip (aka HuayaBDAx86)

I will host these driver packages as long as I can and mirror them if the server load is too high. If you have a question ask here in the comments as other readers may help you.

Easycap Usb 20 Video Capture Controller Driver Windows 7 32bit Software

Easycap Usb 20 Video Capture Controller Driver Windows 7 32bit Windows 10

• Updated about 4 years ago